Police called following an argument over boots: South Euclid Police Blotter

MENACING, MAYFIELD ROAD: A woman, 35, and a man, 24, called 911 at 5:16 p.m. Oct. 6 claiming the owner of a clothing store pulled a gun on them.

When police arrived, the man told police he had asked to see Timberland boots. He brushed the fabric on the boots and it didn’t change colors.

He told the owner he wasn’t interested in the boots because they were fake and he should call the FBI on the store for selling fake items.

The man told police he and the woman, accompanied by her child, 4, went to their car and the owner followed them and took out a gun while yelling at them. When police arrived, the man was at the store door telling the owner he would shoot up the store. The man did not have a gun on his person.

The owner, meanwhile, told police he followed the couple outside, telling them how to tell if an item is fake. He said he took out a garment tagger, not a gun. Police did not find a gun in the store.

The owner said as he walked back inside the store, the man followed him, yelling.

All parties were told to contact the city prosecutor if they wished to pursue the matter.

ABDUCTION, MAYFIELD ROAD: Police were called to a bar at 5:06 p.m. Oct. 6. Two women were on the scene when police arrived, one of the women explained her pregnant, juvenile cousin,17, was picked up and put into a car by the man who is the yet-to-be-born child’s father.

The two were arguing and the cousin was yelling she didn’t want to get in the car.

The two women followed as the man drove away with the girl, but they eventually lost him. Cleveland police stopped the man’s car on Euclid Avenue.

The girl told police she had argued with the man and he raised his hand to hit her. He didn’t hit her, but the girl told him she wanted to get out of the car. She did and went into the South Euclid bar. There she called her aunt and cousin to come pick her up. As the girl waited at the bar, the man, 18, showed up and forced her into his car.

Police noted the man was behaving erratically, hitting his head against the police car window. During the booking process, he would be calm one moment, then shouting and pounding his fist the next. A check of the man’s police record showed he had been arrested once before for domestic violence.

THEFT, MAYFIELD ROAD: At 4:50 p.m. an employee of Giant Eagle was working at the pharmacy drive-through window when she saw three men and a woman walking through the lot.

They pushed shopping carts filled with unbagged groceries. The manager was called and he went to the lot to confront the parties. As he did, two of the males ran, while the woman and a man stood by the car into which they had been loading the groceries.

The woman, 39, of Cleveland, told police one of the males who ran was her son, 21, and the other his friend, 19. She said the man standing with her at the car had nothing to do with the thefts, and she had only called him to drive her, her son and his friend to Giant Eagle.

Surveillance tapes show the three suspects each leaving the store with carts filled with unbagged groceries. The total theft amounted to $2,790.

UNWANTED GUEST, WEST ANDERSON ROAD: A woman called police at 9:22 p.m. Oct. 8 stating her son, 21, violated a criminal trespass warning and had come to her home. The man told police he was aware of the warning, but went to the house anyway.

The man was cited for violation of the warning.

THEFT, ARGONNE ROAD: A woman reported on Oct. 8 the rear license plate was missing from her rented car. The woman’s car was parked in her unlocked garage at the time of the theft. The woman suspects her ex-boyfriend is behind the theft.

On Oct. 10, the woman was involved in another incident. The former boyfriend drove up behind her car as she picked up her two children from daycare. The man’s car blocked the woman’s exit.

The man got out of his car and tried to open her car door, which was locked. He then threatened to do her bodily harm before driving off. The woman told police she wants to pursue charges against the man, with whom she broke up in August.

DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION, CEDAR ROAD: As an officer watched traffic pass just before noon Oct. 10, he saw a car containing two people not wearing seat belts go by. A traffic stop was made. The passenger was issued a warning for not wearing a seat belt.

The driver said she didn’t have any insurance information as the car belonged to the passenger’s mother. A check on the driver, 20, of Cleveland, showed she was driving with a suspended license. There was also a warrant for her arrest issued in Cleveland Heights.

The woman was arrested and charged with driving under suspension and not wearing a seat belt. The car’s owner was called to the scene to drive away the vehicle.

DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION, SOUTH GREEN ROAD: Police noted a car traveling at 39 miles per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour zone at 2:15 p.m. Oct. 10 on South Green Road.

A traffic stop was made and it was found the driver, a Cleveland man, 21, was driving with a suspended license. The man was cited for speeding and driving under suspension.

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